school district

1. 1.

   a district whose public schools are administered together

   Broaderadministrative district

Questions about school district

What does school district mean?

school district means "a district whose public schools are administered together".

Is school district a common word?

school district is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.